"LarryLard" wrote in message
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"Richard J." wrote in message
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BBC news report at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4031397.stm

"A plan to run London Underground services for an extra hour on Friday
and Saturday nights will be put to Londoners, the Mayor has said. The
last Tube would run at 1.30am, but [the Tube] would not start running
until an hour later the next day to allow time for maintenance work.

TfL will consult Tube users, businesses and workers about the plans over
the coming months. If approved, services would be extended by the end of
2006."

Something makes me suspect that wannabe-late-night-tube-users will be
more vocal during the consultation period than
already-early-morning-tube-users, and we will end up with an hour more
of ****ed people and an hour less of useful workers, but that's just
me being cynical I guess.


What about people who've been out on Saturday, but whose trains (or ****ing
replacement coaches) arrive late back into London?

All the operators are guilty, but thinking specifically of Virgin Trains
West Coast mainline, it is not unlikely for trains from Glasgow, Liverpool
etc. to be delayed by more than an hour or two throughout the course of
their journey?

The /last/ thing I want to do when I've been travelling for about six hours
is to have to extended my journey further via a combination of night buses
to get to my destination.

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"Sir Benjamin Nunn" wrote in message
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What about people who've been out on Saturday, but whose trains (or
****ing replacement coaches) arrive late back into London?

All the operators are guilty, but thinking specifically of Virgin Trains
West Coast mainline, it is not unlikely for trains from Glasgow, Liverpool
etc. to be delayed by more than an hour or two throughout the course of
their journey?

The /last/ thing I want to do when I've been travelling for about six
hours is to have to extended my journey further via a combination of night
buses to get to my destination.

When I was delayed by 1.5 hours coming into Euston on the last train and so
had missed the last tube Virgin paid for a taxi back to Clapham for me. I
thought that was standard.

Dave

"Dave Liney" wrote in message
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"Sir Benjamin Nunn" wrote in message
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What about people who've been out on Saturday, but whose trains (or
****ing replacement coaches) arrive late back into London?

All the operators are guilty, but thinking specifically of Virgin Trains
West Coast mainline, it is not unlikely for trains from Glasgow,
Liverpool etc. to be delayed by more than an hour or two throughout the
course of their journey?

The /last/ thing I want to do when I've been travelling for about six
hours is to have to extended my journey further via a combination of
night buses to get to my destination.

When I was delayed by 1.5 hours coming into Euston on the last train and
so had missed the last tube Virgin paid for a taxi back to Clapham for me.
I thought that was standard.


When I was delayed by 4 hours on a ****ing rubbish coach, they said there
would be someone there at Euston to arrange taxis. There wasn't.

We all had to arrange and pay for our own taxis, and I'm still waiting to be
reimbursed.

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What about people who've been out on Saturday, but whose trains (or ****ing
replacement coaches) arrive late back into London?

All the operators are guilty, but thinking specifically of Virgin Trains
West Coast mainline, it is not unlikely for trains from Glasgow, Liverpool
etc. to be delayed by more than an hour or two throughout the course of
their journey?

The /last/ thing I want to do when I've been travelling for about six hours
is to have to extended my journey further via a combination of night buses
to get to my destination.

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So I presume you are for the extended openning then?

"Chris" wrote in message
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The /last/ thing I want to do when I've been travelling for about six
hours
is to have to extended my journey further via a combination of night
buses
to get to my destination.


So I presume you are for the extended openning then?


Very much so.

Ideally, I'd like to see some sort of 24-hour service, or at the very least
high-speed replacement nightbuses that only called at the stations.

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